See Also: oxlip(medicine)
oxlip(dictionary)
Bardfield oxlip(dictionary)

oxlip (iou)



oxlip noun. OE.
[from OX + SLIP noun1: cf. COWSLIP.]
Any of several kinds of Primula having flowers in a stalked umbel like the cowslip, P. veris, but larger and paler; orig. (more fully false oxlip), the hybrid between the cowslip and the primrose, P. vulgaris; later (more fully true Bardfield oxlip, Bardfield oxlip), P. elatior, a woodland species restricted in Britain to Essex and parts of East Anglia.